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NASA's Phoenix Finally Fills Oven
JoeRobe writes "Phoenix has successfully filled oven #4 of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument (TEGA). They have spent several days now vibrating the screen above the oven, trying to get a significant amount of soil sample into it. From the article: '[T]he oven might have filled because of the cumulative effects of all the vibrating, or because of changes in the soil's cohesiveness as it sat for days on the top of the screen.' Either way, this is the first step toward getting some interesting data from this instrument."
Thats great, but what happens when the light bulb on the oven burns out?
I want my Mini-Martian-Mooncake!
What do you mean "water doesn't sublime"? Are you being pedantic by pointing out that "water" is the usual term for the liquid phase and therefore cannot sublime by definition, or are you just wrong?
...it had to get barefoot and pregnant first. *ducks*